Container for sanitary shaving-brushes.



H. B. RODGERS.

CONTAINER FOR SANITARY SHAVING BRUSHES.

7 APPLICATION FILED Nov. 24, 1914.

Patented Jan 18, 1916;

B. RODGERS, OF' CHAMBERSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

CONTAINEE FDR SANITARY SHAVING-BRUSHES.

specification of Letters Patent.

- Patented Jan.-1 8,-1916.

application filed. November 24, 191s. Serial No. 873,759.

To ail whom it may concern. I

Be itlrnown that,I,H'A1mY B. Rooonns, a citizen f the United States, residing at Chambersbu'rgin the county of F ranklinand State- 'of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Containers for Sanitary Shaving-Brushes,

of which the following is a specification.

It is the aim of the'present invention to provide a sanitary shaving brush and container therefor.

It is one object of the invention to provide a shaving brush which may be manufactured at a low cost and placed upon the market ready for instant use, and adapted for the production of a lather when properly moistened.

More specifically, the invention contemplates the provision of a brush, the applying portion of which is so treated with a saponaceous substance, that the brush will not be required to be applied to a cake of soap.

Another object of the invention is to provide a shaving brush which, while it may be used as conveniently as the ordinary brush, will so i, expensive to manufacture that it may be thrown away after being used but once.

Another object of the invention is to pro vide a sanitary shaving brush possessing the properties and advantages above mentioned and furtherto provide for the brush a container which will effectually protect the applyingportion of the brush from contamination and which maybe readily removed from the brush when it is desired to use the latter.

A further object of the invention is to provide a novel and extremely simple brush construction and a novel and extremely simple and inexpensive container therefor.

In the accompanying-drawings; Figure l is a perspective view of the article embodying the present invention. Fig. 2 is a similar View, illustrating the container for the brush partly opened. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse sectional view through the container, the brush being shown in elevation. Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken in a vertical plane at right angles to the plane of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the brush removed and ready for use... Fig. 6 is a view similar to Fig. 3 illustrating a slight modification of the invention. 1

Corresponding and hire parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the accompanying draw-.

ings by the same reference characters,

Generally stated, the article embodying the present invention comprises a tuft of fibrous material, theapplying portion of which has been treated with'a saponaceous substance, associated with a container con-.

structed to house the tuft comprisingthe brush and adapted to be torn open when it is desired to'remove and use the. brush.

:Inasmuch as it is essential that the brush be of such construction and material as to be inexpensl ve to -manufacture,-1 prefer to i employ in the manufacture of the brush a tuft of Manila fibers, although of course, if

desired, fibrous material of a more expensive nature may be employed.

In the drawings, the numeral Indicates a tuft of such fibers, the fibers comprising the tuft being tightly bound together at one end of the tuft by means of a band 2 of paper or any other suitable material; 'While it is preferable to employ a band, as illustrated in the drawings, the fibers may, if desired, be bound by cord, wire, or, in fact, in any suitable manner and with any suit able material, and, in fact, if desired, the end of the tuft may be immersed in some binding agent having the property of l1ar-= dening and in this manner securing the fibers together. The end of the tuft just the numeral 3, constitutes the applying portion of the brush. As before stated, the-ap plying portion of the brush is treated with a saponaceous substance and this may be accomplished either by dipping the said applyingportion in a soap solution or liquid soap composition, and then removing the brush therefrom and allowing the same to dry, or a suitable soap powder may be dusted or otherwise distributed among the fibers comprising the applying portion of the brush. In fact, there are numerous ways in which a saponaceous substance could be applied to the said portion of the brush and I am therefore not to be limited to the precise means herein described. Abrush treated with the liquid soap composition, as above mentioned, is shown in Figs. 3, 4 and 5 of the drawings, and Fig; 6 illustrates a brush to wiich a suitable soap powder has been applie I The container for the brush above described is preferably made of paper, although it may be found desirable to employ some othermate'rial for this purpose, and

this container is made up from a blank of any suitable or convenient form or outline, and in its completed form is substantially in the nature of a bag of trapezoidal out-- line. The container is indicated in general by the numeral 4, the closed lower end thereof being indicated at 5, the receiving upper end at 6, and the side edges at 7 and 8. By reference to Fig. 2 it'will be observed that the upper and lower ends of the container are parallel and that the side 8 extends on a line at right angles to thesaid upper and lower ends, the side edge 7 being non-parallel to the side 8 and the container being of less width at its upper or receiving end than at its closed lower end. A quanband in the manner shown in Fig. 2 Of'tllfi drawings. It will be apparent by reference to the said Fig. 2, that when the mouth of the container is closed about the brush, the handle portion of the brush is disposed at that side of the mouth adjacent the inclined side 7 of the container. It'- will also .be observed that the innerv surfaces of the front and back of the-container at the mouth thereof, adhere to each other laterally be-- yond the portion of the month which surrounds the handle ortion of the brush. To the outer side of tie front of the container, at the mouth thereof, there is applied, as indicated at 10, a quantity of adhesive, and

after the container has been assembled with the brush in the manner above described, the portion of the body'of the container lying laterally beyond the portions comprising the brush is folded along'a diagonalline, indicated approXimately'at 11, and in the manner illustrated clearly in Fig. l of the'drawings, the adhesive'area 10 being moistened whereby to hold the portion folded as stated.

It will be understood that the article is to be placed upon the market in the condition shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, andwhen it is desired to use the brush, the portion 12 of the container is pulled back, as shown in Fig. 2, of the drawings and is then torn off, whereupon the remaining portion of the container may be readily removed from the brush.

Having thus described the invention, whatis claimed as new is:

As a new article of manufacture, a sam tary container for a shavingbrush of substantially trapezoidal form, the container having its mouth located at its minor end and its bottom at its major end and having one side substantially at right angles to the said bottom, the walls of the container at 4 the mouth thereof being adapted to be united subsequentv to the introduction of the bristle end of the brush into the container 'and the said walls at the said mouth being 'arrangedt'ohave their ununited portions surround the shank of the brush, that portion of the container which is laterally disposed with relation to the portion embracing the brush being adapted to be folded over and secured to the said brush embracing portion. y

In testimony whereof I aliix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HARRY B. RODGERS. [1,. s.] Witnesses:

J OHN D. RICE, EDGAR R. GILLAND. 

